Kira Brunner Don

Kira Brunner Don is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Stranger’s Guide. She worked as a magazine editor in New York and California and as a journalist covering politics and culture around the world. She has received three National Magazine Awards. Two for General Excellence in her role as Editor-in-Chief of Stranger’s Guide and one in Photography for her photo curation. In 2022 she was named the FOLIO: Eddie and Ozzie Awards Editor of the Year.

She studied philosophy at The New School’s Graduate Faculty and worked at a think tank at Columbia University before joining Lapham’s Quarterly, where she was Executive Editor for eight years. She is co-editor of the book The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention and was the co-founder of the Oakland Book Festival. She lives in Oakland, California with her two children.